They started shipping the dream plugs, or are you just one of those special people that get it before the rest of us? Unfortunately, I am not aware of a way getting serial/jtag functionality without the jtag box.

Interesting. No Dreamplug images for any uboot, rootfs or kernel in the remository. ESIA hasn't been updated for over 6 months. Nothing on the plug wiki. Makes you wonder how serious Marvell and GSI are about this new model.

I'm planning on ordering a Dreamplug soon, so I'm interested in learning as much as I can about the thing and how it's configured.

Bwooster0, do you think you could post the output of `dmesg`, `cat /proc/mounts` and `mount` (the last two might be identical, but if they're only similar, the differences could be illuminating).

Note that the /dev/sda1 device you mentioned corresponds only to the FAT16 partition with the kernel uImage on it. I'm guessing the / ext3 partition is /dev/sda2 and if you want to back the whole system up you want to make an image of /dev/sda . But I still need to read up on the the various ways Linux handles MTDs like the Dreamplug's internal SD. The `dmesg` would really be helpful.

It's possible to create and use an Ext4 filesystem w/o a journal, if journaling is really frowned upon. I need to find out if uBoot can handle ext4, or if it matters (since the kernel is on FAT16 anyway).

Debian being Debian, it should be possible to upgrade the system in place from Lenny to Squeeze just by changing the distribution in /etc/apt/sources.list and using apt-get -- but that's assuming the OS really is Lenny, and not some hacked-up hybrid like the Guruplug seems to ship with. Anyway, I think you're really gonna need that JTAG box if you want to upgrade the system, even in place.

Again, I'm just starting to get into this, so please take my words with a grain of salt; recovering from a mistake without the JTAG box may not be possible.

Oh, and how's the cooling situation? Are the overheating problems of the Guruplug fixed?

Now I have to figure out how to clone the internal drive to an SD card and have it boot from that card. Note that the bootdelay is 3 second! You don't have much time to hit that key to get into U-Boot!

I was able to backup the internal SD card to a USB drive. Then by changing the u-boot parameters I was able to boot the device from the USB drive. I really want to be able to boot the drive from an inserted SD card. The current U-Boot does not allow this so now I have to figure out how to upgrade U-Boot to a newer version.

*SIGH* Does anyone know how to do this? I know there is quite a thread on this forum about U-Boot but I haven't found a definitive solution.

I noticed the same thing with the Dreamplug I tested. It does not allow the Kernel to be loaded from the SD card but it was quite easy to copy and rename the kernel from the SD onto the 1st partition of the microSD and leave the Rootfs on the SD card.

I was thinking of trying out fedora on the dreamplug. I think it would require using the fedora kernel tho and I am not sure that fedora would have the drivers for the dreamplugs devices (sound, esata, spdif...)